Europe needs more dosh for AI, Google's TPU2 vs Nvidia's Tesla V100, and more

Here's your roundup of machine-learning news from this week, beyond what we've already covered. Axon AI Ethics board A group of civil rights groups and technology researchers has written a letter to Axon, a company that uses AI to analyze video footage aimed at law enforcement. Axon recently announced it had set up an AI …

[W Donelson]

Who will OWN the A.I. is the real question

A.I. could free humanity...

... but when the super-rich and corporations OWN all the A.I. and robots (already), and replace almost all jobs (more and more), what will you do?

The rich are NOT going to feed and care for you....

Bet on it.

[Destroy All Monsters]

Re: Who will OWN the A.I. is the real question

Not gonna happen.

AI will be old stuff anyway when Serious Biotech happens, which we are moving towards at a good clip.

Get ready for superroach attacks. Or Anonymous Meat, Packets Of.

[Pascal Monett]

"ideas for an European research AI hub"

No, it's ideas for a bigger statistical analysis center, which will give Fortune 500 companies even better methods and tools to deep mine Big Data and screw us over.

They use the word AI, but it does not mean what we think it does.

[Anonymous Coward]

Trump declares "EU was created to rip US off". Bring it on!!

The European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems, dubbed ELLIS, would benefit Europe by creating new jobs and conducting top quality research to make sure Europe doesn’t fall behind the US and China in shaping how AI changes the world.

I'm into this. Please give me 80s cyberpunk-worthy "special sauce" somewhat creepy and endearingly dysfunctional Russo-European AI behaving differently that whatever comes out of US Tensorflow outlets with a Facebook button the side.